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TikTok No Longer the Most Downloaded App—Dethroned By ChatGPT

The digital app landscape is forever shifting—TikTok has been dethroned by ChatGPT as the most downloaded app worldwide. ChatGPT was downloaded 52 million times in April 2025 across both Google Play ...
The Droid Guy

ChatGPT Overtakes Instagram and TikTok to Become Most Downloaded App Globally in March 2025

ChatGPT’s total of 46 million downloads in March was driven by a notable surge across both iOS and Android. On Apple’s App Store, ChatGPT reached 13 million installs, outpacing Instagram’s 5 million ...
Fast Company

TikTok and CapCut shoot right to the top of Apple’s App Store downloads as ByteDance returns to phones

ByteDance’s TikTok and CapCut apps are back in the Apple and Google app stores after having been absent from both for nearly a month. And in a sign of just how popular both apps are, both apps have ...
Barron's

TikTok Ban Makes RedNote the No. 1 Most Downloaded App. There’s Just One Hitch.

The Supreme Court’s decision over whether or not TikTok will be banned in the U.S. could come at any moment, and users are wasting no time jumping to a different—and China owned—app.
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Apple reveals its most downloaded app of 2025 — and it's not TikTok or Google

OpenAI's ChatGPT just crushed every other app on the iPhone this year. Apple released its annual rankings for 2025, and the chatbot pulled more downloads than TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Maps, and ...
The News-Times

TikTok is already the most downloaded app in the world, according to Nikkei

According to a global survey carried out by the Asian medium since 2018, for the first time the short video app surpassed Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp in downloads, all platforms of the ...
Yahoo

Tik Tok users are not fleeing to Meta. They're going to this Chines-owned app. | Opinion

I have some bad news for Americans and lawmakers living in fear of China spying on us and taking our data through TikTok. A mass exodus is happening right now of Americans flocking to an actual ...
MLive

TikTok users turn Chinese platform ‘RedNote’ into No.1 app in America as ban looms

With just a few days before the popular social media platform TikTok is expected to go dark in the United States, users are turning to a similar Chinese platform in huge numbers, according to the ...
The New York Times

‘Red Note,’ a Chinese App, Is Dominating Downloads, Thanks to TikTok Users

To show how little they care about TikTok’s ties to Beijing, people in the United States are downloading one of China’s most popular apps. By Claire Fu and Meaghan Tobin Claire Fu reported from Seoul ...
New York Post

TikTok returns on Apple, Google app stores as Trump delays ban

President Donald Trump delayed the TikTok ban until April 5 as the app is back on the U.S. app stores of Apple and Google. Christopher Sadowski (Reuters) – TikTok returned on the U.S. app stores of ...
Reuters

TikTok returns on Apple, Google US app stores as Trump delays ban

TikTok says its latest app is now available for download Trump says that his 75-day deadline on TikTok could be extended Trump in talks with multiple people over TikTok's purchase Feb 13 (Reuters) - ...